00:00In a stunning political twist, a block of Republican senators has publicly broken ranks
00:28with Donald Trump just days after his controversial military operation in Venezuela.
00:35Five GOP lawmakers joined all Senate Democrats to advance a resolution that could limit or
00:42even check the president's power to order future military force without Congress, and
00:48Capitol Hill is reeling.
00:51The Senate voted 52 to 47 to advance the measure under the War Powers Act, a rare bipartisan
00:58rebuke of a sitting Republican president.
01:02While largely symbolic before full debate, the move marks a striking moment of GOP dissent
01:08over Trump's Venezuela policy.
01:11The yeas are 52, the nays are 47.
01:16The motion is agreed to.
01:19The joint resolution will be placed on the calendar.
01:21Under the previous order, the Senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration
01:27of the following nomination, which the clerk will report.
01:31The five Republicans who voted with Democrats were Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of
01:37Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Todd Young of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.
01:45Republican critics said the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his
01:50wife was effectively military action, not a simple law enforcement mission, and requires
01:56congressional oversight.
01:59Senator Rand Paul, a co-sponsor of the resolution, argued that bombing another Capitol and removing
02:05a head of state amounts to war, and that the Constitution clearly vests war powers in Congress,
02:13not the Oval Office.
02:15Trump erupted in fury after the vote, blasting the Republican defectors on Truth Social and
02:21saying they should never be elected to office again, accusing them of undermining national
02:27defense.
02:28This is the second such bipartisan resolution in recent months aimed at checking Trump's
02:34military authority after U.S. forces carried out strikes and seized Maduro in Caracas without
02:41congressional approval.
02:43Though the measure faces an uphill battle in the House and a likely presidential veto,
02:48the Senate vote shines a spotlight on growing unease within the GOP over unilateral foreign
02:55interventions.
02:56Tonight, five Republicans have sent a message.
03:00Even in Trump's party, the limits of executive power are being tested.
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